[R] Changing X axis values
Michael Dewey
lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk
Fri Dec 18 12:52:14 CET 2015
Dear Amelia
As well as Jim's excellent advice you may want to look at the las
parameter which enables you to alter the orientation. Of course you then
have to lie on your side to read them or turn your monitor through pi/2
On 18/12/2015 11:30, Jim Lemon wrote:
> Hi Amelia,
> The usual way is:
>
> plot(...,xaxt="n")
> axis(1,at=seq(0,18000,by=1000)
>
> However, you will get overlapping labels unless you use a small font or a
> large graphics device. You may want to look at the staxlab function in the
> plotrix package.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Amelia Marsh via R-help <
> r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Forum,
>>
>> Assuming I need to plot a graph. In the code I have defined X axis range as
>>
>>
>>
>> xlim=c(0,18000)
>>
>>
>> In the plot, the values visible w.r.t X axis are 0, 5000, 10000, 18000.
>>
>> To improve the graph clarity, is there any way I can show the values of X
>> axis as 0, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 .......18000 i.e. the values
>> increase by 1000 instead of 5000.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Amelia
>>
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